Smokers have been told to pay more than £4,000 after being caught dropping SIX cigarette butts by Bristol’s so-called ‘litter police’. Bristol magistrates dished out three-figure fines to six people caught dropping butts in the city between November 9 and 10 last year.

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Suspect in murder of Weston-super-Mare woman gunned down by police

Caroline Morton Hicks

A 45-year-old man wanted in connected with the murder of a Caroline Morton-Hicks from Weston-super-Mare has been shot dead by police.

Steven Brooks, also known as Siddeeq Ma’Shooq, was driving a stolen truck and the wrong way down an interstate in Florida before he crashed the vehicle in to a bridge support in the early hours of Friday morning, the Tampa Bay Times reports.

JCDecaux has submitted plans to replace a paper billboard in Stapleton Road with a digital display

Residents in Easton are in uproar after an advertising giant submitted plans to replace a billboard with a 12metre-wide digital display.

More than 40 letters of objection have been received by the council in response to the plans, with many of those expressing concern about the visual impact a digital display might have – not just on residents but road users, too.

Update on Cabot Circus owner's plan to buy Cribbs Causeway

The owner of Cabot Circus has pulled back from a planned deal to acquire the owner of Cribbs Causeway, which would have created a £21billion super company.

Property development and investment company Hammerson, which jointly owns Cabot Circus with Axa Real Estate Investors through the Bristol Alliance, is no longer urging shareholders to vote to acquire Intu, which owns Cribbs.

Cabot Circus (Image: Photo by Dan Regan)

The announcement comes months after the rivals agreed an all-share offer for Intu, which would have created the UK’s biggest property company with a national portfolio of retail and leisure destinations worth billions.

Decision on night-time A&E closure will not come until at least autumn

A decision on the future of A&E services at Weston General Hospital is unlikely to be announced until the autumn.

The emergency room at the Weston-super-Mare hospital has been closed from 10pm to 8am since July last year.

The night-time closure came into place after health chiefs said dangerously low staff levels meant they could not man the department safely for 24 hours a day.

Weston General Hospital A&E demonstration. Weston General Hospital where demonstrators objecting to the proposed night time closure of the hospital's Accident and Emergency department staged a demonstration. (Image: Steve Roberts )

The Save Weston A&E campaign group has organised protests outside the hospital since the closure, and they believe it is putting lives at risk.

Campaigners have also been calling for answers on whether the A&E department will ever reopen fully.

Avon and Somerset police officers are owed 9,707 days off

Police officers from Avon and Somerset have racked up 9,707 rest days which they haven’t taken since September 17 last year – because there aren’t enough staff to cover days off, say the Police Federation.

And it’s not just front-line officers, 2,132 rest days are owed to staff, and 1,002 are owed to PCSOs.

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In total that means 12,841 days off are owed to the 5,630 officers, staff and PCSOs at Avon and Somerset Constabulary. That equates to more than two days off for each of our police staff which haven’t yet been claimed.